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Awesome build. I swear the new allez looks a lot like that.

Always great stuff! Thanks!

Have you ridden one of those? Thinking about getting on to get more serious about long distance cycling/audax. Does it feel responsive?

Did you make her carry everything!

Her bike's lighter, innit

Most of the frame bag is her food supplies, tbf...

Why the 2nd tail light, about 3/4 of the top one is gonna be obscured by the tyre already.

It work surprisingly well despite that from my experiences.

Even though the tyres are big, you won't have to move much to the side to see it.
Unless the driver is going straight in your path, they will see it.

Looks great. I've got a straggler frame in the post at the moment - much excite. Couldn't get a green in my size though :-(

Nice, what are your plans with it?

It'll have humble beginnings: I've got a Fuji tread with sora and I'm swapping the frames out basically. Went for the straggler as I'd have plenty of options beyond that, in the future.

Readers wives.... Mid 80's 531st Dawes Galaxy, originally 27 1/4 wheels had braze-ons for 700c added by Neil Orrell, shimano Dynamo hub , Minoura Gamoh, original group set with drillium cranks....

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Nice! Apart from uneven mudguard curvatures, very disturbing to my ocd brain.

if you're ocd i wouldn't even get up close in the flesh..! but thanks!

That would look really ace with hammered mudguard, especially since you got the clearance for it!

yeah, the black guards are a hangover from when it was grey/graphite coloured...

Really nice!
I'm surprised you were not able to migrate from 27x1/4 to 700c keeping the original canti bosses, always assumed you'd have enough play in pad adjustment...

It was originally centre pulls, cantis were an upgrade..!

Ah, I see, wrongly assumed Galaxys always had cantis...
I agree 100% with Ed, silver hammered mudguards would look great on this...

Reader's wife:

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nice! what frameset is this?

@fredtc @Jaap Thanks! It's a Pact custom ti frame: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/286731/

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252281959721?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&var=551115495675&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

£130 for these atm on ebay, pop a set of surly forks on and you've got an good solid functional frameset for under 200